The message voters delivered to the Palestinians on Tuesday was loud and clear: If you won’t talk, Israel will stop listening.

With 99.8% of votes tallied, Right and Left blocs tie with 60 seats each; voter turnout 66.6%; Likud-Beytenu receive 31 seats, Yesh Atid 19, Labor 15, Bayit Yehudi, Shas 11, Livni, Meretz 6 each, UAL-Taal 5, Hadash 4, Kadima 2.

Israel goes Leftward as Right bloc's majority razor-thin; voter turnout 66.6%; Likud Beytenu plummets; Labor polled to get 17 seats, Bayit Yehudi 12, Shas 11, Livni and Meretz 7 each, UTJ 6.

Initial Israeli exit polls show the combined Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu ticket won the highest vote total while the new center-left Yesh Atid unexpectedly came in second.

Central Elections Committee reports record voter turnout; Prime Minister Netanyahu still expected to form next government, but fears traditional Likud strongholds' low turnout could hurt party strength.

Israelis started voting on Tuesday in an early election that is expected to see Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu win a third term in office.

In 2011, a French court ruled that the 51 year-old John Galliano, the then Paris-based Dior designer, had made “public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or ethnicity”.

The parliamentary assembly of the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe is considering a ban on some of its extreme-right members if they are affiliated with parties that are considered “neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic''.

Netanyahu, Yacimovich, Bennett nudge citizens in final vote push.